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.... The jump is particularly sharp in some areas, such as petrol, textiles, clothing and footwear. Non-food stores and online shops recorded their highest year-on-year price growth since March 1992, at 3. ...
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.... Among the main sites are Twenga and Kelkoo, while MoneySavingExpert has a tool that searches through all the big sites. The bane of online shopping can be delivery charges – £20 being the minimum threshold of purchases for free delivery in the case of Amazon. ...
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.... Among the main sites are Twenga and Kelkoo, while MoneySavingExpert has a tool that searches through all the big sites. The bane of online shopping can be delivery charges – £20 being the minimum threshold of purchases for free delivery in the case of Amazon. ...

.... The jump is particularly sharp in some areas, such as petrol, textiles, clothing and footwear. Non-food stores and online shops recorded their highest year-on-year price growth since March 1992, at 3. ...

....But what lies behind such low prices? Concerns have been raised among consumer groups that buyers should be fully aware of what they are getting into and how they should go into any deal with their eyes open. Much as Amazon is synonymous with online shopping in Europe and the US, in China the dominant player is Alibaba. ...

....Similarly, the online retailer Amazon is now worth twice as much as Walmart, after overtaking the American grocery chain in 2015. Photiades said that 20 years ago, when online shopping was in its infancy and before Asos was established in 2000, M&S had a market value of £16. ...

....One shopper, who gave her name as Celine, said she was unlikely to purchase peaches and the music-playing Echo at the same time, “unless I’m going to a barbecue”. She said that while she welcomed cheaper prices at the chain often derisively known as “Whole Paycheck”, she was also concerned that Amazon’s entry into the food business could also serve to put smaller retailers out of business, increasing the sense that the Seattle-based tech online shopping behemoth now enjoys monopoly-like power. ...

....An earlier attempt to launch tests in the UK, heralded in 2016’s spring budget, stalled after a fruitless search for a HGV manufacturer to participate. The platooning trial will be conducted by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), which has been involved in other tests of driverless vehicles, including passenger shuttles in Greenwich and autonomous delivery pods for online shopping. ...

.... At stake is an enormous online retail market which Amazon not only want to protect, but grow. The move also comes a day after Walmart announced a partnership with Google where the search giant will start offering Walmart products to people who shop on Google Express, the company’s online shopping mall. ...

.... No longer demoralised by the rise of online retail, the high street is on a mission to bring back the joys of the shopping trip. The 21st-century shopping trip is a new and improved version of what online shoppers left behind when they retreated to their laptops. ...

.... Many consumers are swapping their weekly shop for more frequent visits to small local stores as they try to save money or cut down on food waste. The rise of online shopping has also hit large supermarkets who have been forced to cut costs as a result. ...

.... Lambertis worked for two years at New York City’s Babeland, a sex toy boutique. Babeland is exactly the kind of brick-and-mortar shop that would seem imperiled by the privacy of online shopping. ...

.... It said ending sales of single-use bags – from Monday 28 August – will significantly reduce the number of bags sold and would therefore help to reduce litter and the number of bags sent to landfill. Tesco said online shoppers could still opt to receive deliveries in single-use bags after the end of store sales, although just over half already choose a bagless delivery. ...

....Lily Cole is fed up with single-use plastic bottles and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has been accosting takeaway coffee drinkers in the street as part of his war on waste. But what drives you mad when it comes to excess packaging? Whether it’s online shopping swamped in unnecessary bubble wrap, plastic straws appearing in your drinks unrequested, or supermarket shelves lined with over-packaged fruit and veg, we want you to share your photos of your packaging woes with us. ...

.... The purchase is yet to be approved by US regulators in a process that could see the matter decided by Trump. Last year, Alibaba admitted that the US Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating the accounting practices of its logistics network and its huge Singles’ Day online shopping event – it’s like Black Friday but much, much bigger – a matter that has yet to be resolved. ...

....Bezos – born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1964 – keeps a relatively low profile, but has used some of the wealth he has amassed to buy the Washington Post and invest in space travel through Blue Origin, a company he founded in 2000. He began Amazon in 1994 when he sold books from his garage in Seattle before expanding into a huge range of other products and capturing the global rush to online shopping. ...

....It comes as Amazon made further strides into the grocery market, with a takeover of Whole Foods announced last month. The online shopping giant last year launched AmazonFresh last year and a partnership with Morrisons, which allows customers to order fresh and frozen food from the supermarket. ...

....Shopping centre operators such as Hammerson are fighting back as physical stores are challenged by the rate at which retail sales are transferring to the internet. “Our own research shows that on an average shopping journey customers use a combination of offline and online shopping channels,” explained David Atkins, Hammerson chief executive. ...

....The government said that social media accounts and websites linked to scams had been closed and hundreds of arrests made. Although phantom goods only account for a fraction of scam cases, online shoppers are being urged to avoid paying for items online via a bank transfer, encouraged to research a trader before agreeing to a purchase, and told to look for the padlock icon when paying online. ...

.... Upstarts, whose shopping services might be preferred by consumers, will struggle to get off the ground. It is also true, as Google has argued, that many online shopping rivals have still managed to prosper – just look at Amazon. ...

....Ocado has sent a self-driving truck trundling through the backstreets of Woolwich, south-east London, as part of the UK’s first trial of autonomous grocery deliveries. The small vehicle, developed by Oxford-based Oxbotica, is spending 10 days delivering food and snacks to Ocado customers who live in the area, to test Ocado’s plans for its “Smart Platform” – a plug-and-play online shopping business that it wants to sell to grocery retailers around the world who hope to compete with the likes of Amazon and Walmart. ...

....The new campaign, called the Great Jobs Agenda, is targeting the millions of people in precarious work in the so-called gig economy – where, rather than having fixed permanent roles, workers tend to be given tasks as and when they are needed. That kind of work has grown hand in hand with the rise of online shopping, and platforms such as the taxi-hailing app Uber and the takeaway delivery service Deliveroo. ...

.... Profits were also affected by a one-off £81m write-down on the value of the group’s stores and a £22m provision for loss-making stores and onerous leases. Green is said to have called in McKinsey management consultants to help him turn around Arcadia’s fortunes and allow the company catch up with rivals in online shopping. ...

.... The company did not pay a dividend. Green is said to have appointed management consultants at McKinsey to try to help him turn around Arcadia’s fortunes and help the company catch up with rivals in online shopping. ...

....Others branches are expected to open shortly, in Newcastle and Bedford. The expansion comes despite the collapse of BHS, which has fuelled fears about the future of department stores in the age of online shopping. ...

...."In the current volatile retail environment when many other retailers are closing, we are in a great position to be opportunistic," Mr Herrman said. TJX said online shopping was helping the company in a way by allowing it to "police" prices and prove to customers it offered good deals. ...

....“In a year from now, you’ll wish you started today” is Kazim’s mantra. “If you want to start an online shop, want to enrol in a course to up your skills, start a blog, write a book – just do it. ...

....9%. The new boss of the department store chain, Paula Nickolds, has since warned of potential job cuts and price rises as the business tries to adapt to changes in the way people shop, particularly the move to online shopping. ...

....As the post became a national talking point, Alibaba - the dominant online marketplace in China - got in touch with Danish officials, later announcing they had "agreed on further collaboration". Its online shopping unit Tmall said it was in talks with customs authorities in Hangzhou over ways to expedite the process of bringing the oysters - and other agricultural products - into China. ...

.... Rowe is also keen to exploit the success of its food arm. Last year Rowe announced plans to shut 30 UK stores and convert 45 more into food-only shops as part of a business overhaul that would slash the amount of shopfloor space devoted to clothing and face the challenge posed by online shopping. ...

....Data from large numbers of conversations by all users is also sampled, to help them recognise words with different pronunciations or how to create natural discussion. Many of us are familiar with shopping recommendations - think of the supermarket that reminds you to add cheese to your online shop, or the way Amazon suggests books it thinks you might like. ...

....US high streets are witnessing a Darwinian winnowing. In recent months hundreds of closures have been announced as retailers including Macy’s, Sears, American Apparel and Abercrombie & Fitch have scaled back their bricks-and-mortar operations in the face of a shift to online shopping. ...

....“The acquisition is expected to complete in the first half of May 2017 and will provide Sports Direct with a footprint in US bricks-and-mortar retail and a platform from which to grow US online sales,” the company said. The US sporting goods sector is being tested by the expansion of online shopping and discount chains. ...

....This car park could be looked at as a microcosm of Britain in 2017, with its finite tarmac, and its great and growing fleet of vans on top. This is the age of the online shop, of the one-click purchase and the convenient delivery window, and to make it all possible, more vans (“Light goods vehicles. ...

.... The 99p Stores chain collapsed less than two years after rival Poundland bought it for £55m. Andy Brian, head of retail at Gordons law firm, said: “This is another blow for the high street and, crucially, another indication of the huge consumer shift towards online shopping. ...

....However, online sales will continue to grow much more rapidly than visits to retailers, with ecommerce data firm PCA Predict forecasting a 17% increase in transactions over the four-day weekend. Visa’s figures also underlined the shift towards online shopping, with virtual retailers recording a 8. ...

....As well as the benefits of producing grapes without using pesticides, organic wine also contains less sulphur dioxide which can contribute towards hangovers. Supermarkets are increasing the stock on their shelves to meet consumer demand, while the switch to online shopping has helped boost the organic wine sector as people are more easily able to find what they are looking for. ...

....The new boss of the John Lewis department store chain has warned of more job cuts this year and possible price rises as she said shoppers’ behaviour was changing “profoundly and fast”. Paula Nickolds, who took charge of middle England’s favourite store three months ago, said the department store needed to modernise and become more efficient in the face of rising costs, the move to online shopping and a tough economic environment. ...

.... Its annual profits have fallen for the first time in eight years and it doesn't seem in the mood to pull any punches. The most obvious challenge is the continuing gravitation to online shopping. ...

.... It is never too early to teach your children about finances, especially as money can seem almost invisible to them at times. Internet banking, online shopping and card payments often mean some children hardly ever see notes and coins. ...

.... The 160-year-old shoe retailer may yet be rescued, but about 1,000 workers are unsure about their future employment. Profits for bricks-and-mortar shops are being squeezed by the rise of online shopping, an increase in staff costs brought on by the introduction of the national living wage, and fierce discounting of the price of their products, which is designed to attract shoppers but hurts profit margins. ...

.... The department store chain alone is spending £500m over five years on IT and distribution systems – so costs must be saved elsewhere. The ease of online shopping means that high street stores have to work harder to tempt people away from the sofa. ...

....The cut in the bonus reflects the tough retail environment. The business, which covers department stores, supermarkets and online shopping, is expected to report a 10% fall in underlying annual profits for last year. ...

....DPD uses about 5,000 couriers in the UK, many of whom are self-employed and are only paid when they work. It made more than £100m in profit in 2015, according to its latest accounts, amid rapidly rising demand for online shopping. ...

...."The next evolution of mobile shopping will reduce the consumer journey even further. Contextual commerce will enable consumers to buy things at the point of discovery - whether that's in an email, on a Pinterest page or in a messenger app - rather than needing to click through to an online shop," Mr Harper said. ...

....3m in the six months to the end of July, even before a £25m write down of property assets where it no longer wants to build stores. Its “big four” supermarket rivals – Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons – have already pushed through restructuring plans in the face of an increasingly competitive landscape and the growth of online shopping. ...

.... As we’ve all spent so long worrying about the demise of the high street, it might even be liberating to let it go. Also, some consumers, I sense, would like to shift wholesale to online shopping, where they can ruthlessly hunt down the cheapest without having to make eye contact with hungry-looking shopkeepers. ...

....Tesco said the signage had been sent to all its stores but was likely to be most necessary in larger outlets in city centres and towns, where sandwich shops and restaurants were likely to try to buy large numbers of lettuces due to shortages in wholesale supplies. However, iceberg lettuces are listed as “currently not available” on Tesco’s online shopping site, and those that are on sale have generally been imported from the US, incurring hefty air freight costs. ...

.... Even if it can fend off the Echo, it may not be able to defend its core business. By contrast, the Echo’s benefit to Amazon is much clearer: it can make online shopping (at Amazon) a breeze, play music from Amazon’s paid-for subscription service, and generally act as a passive block on your using rival shopping sites – rather as Google cemented its dominance by being the default search engine on multiple browsers in the mid-2000s. ...

....Overall revenues were flat, as increased parcels business – up 2% in volume and 3% in revenue – offset the decline in letters. Royal Mail noted that growth was fed in particular by the consumer parcels sector, which has been boosted by online shoppers ordering products for home delivery. ...

.... Nick Bubb, an independent retail analyst, said John Lewis’s never knowingly undersold price-matching scheme was also likely to have cost the company profit margin as discounting across the market increased ahead of Christmas. Mayfield said the group would have to lift investment in product innovations, such as its premium Waitrose 1 food line or Modern Rarity fashion label, as well as developing infrastructure to cope with rising demand for online shopping. ...

.... Analysts said worries over the economy combined with the growing ease of shopping online had kept people from stores. The slowdown could mean store closures as retailers invest more in developing mobile apps and other online shopping tools, and try to reduce high-street space. ...

....Royal Mail's figures for the expected surge in returns is based on the number of parcels handled by its Tracked Returns service, which is used by more than 1,000 e-retailers. A Royal Mail survey of 1,517 UK online shoppers, looking at the number of items sent back, discovered that 30% of them returned women's clothes, 17% men's clothes, 16% footwear and 7% children's clothes. ...

....Shops in Britain face a perfect storm of rising costs and falling consumer spending in 2017, one of the world’s leading commercial property agents has warned, raising the possibility of more closures after the demise of BHS last year. Retailers will have to contend with rising inflation, labour costs and taxes at the same time as consumers tighten their belts, piling on the pressure for businesses that are already having to deal with the rise of online shopping, according to property agent JLL. ...

....Springboard, which uses electronic sensors to count shopper numbers, predicts that footfall for the last week in December will be down 2. 3% on the same period last year as a growing tendency to spend on nights out adds to the shift to online shopping. ...